Generalizing any group of people (cheerleaders, dance team, football players, soccer players, minority groups, majority groups, ideological groups, etc,etc) is actually …not very nice!!!
Who gets decide what constitutes “nice”?
As a mom of a gymnast turned cheerleader, I have to say that I find the OP’s posts to be very offensive. Who say my D isn’t nice? Just because she is a cheerleader she isn’t nice? And people who are average looking and on the heavy side are apparently nicer and more deserving to be on cheerleading than those who are attractive and thin? Selection to my D’s squad was based on ability, not looks. Anyone who suggests anything otherwise is just misinformed and biased.
Oh boy.
Those stories you’ve read on forums online? Those are basically rumors. And you’re assuming that every one of those tales was written by a person who is actually a high school cheerleader. In today’s screwed up world, some people actually make up fake online personas. It’s weird, but it happens.
So my main point to that is this: don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. Consider the source.
One more thing:
Get a grip. Move on with your life. You have some growing up to do. Go to college, get a good education, find employment that will put a roof over your head where you can pay all of your bills. Add something to your extracurriculars that does not involve cheerleading. Pick something…anything…an anti-bullying campaign on your college campus, volunteer with a charitable organization that does stuff to help the underprivileged/needy members of your community.
OR if you are REALLY and truly serious about the whole dumb “there ought to be a law!” thing about “mean” people in cheerleading…you know what you should do? Start local. Start with your state government. Go and talk to your state representatives and convince 1 of them to sponsor a bill outlawing “mean people” in high school cheerleading. That would be a good personal growth opportunity, I think.
I find the whole premise of the OP to be silly. How are they going to determine who is “nice”? Put the candidates’ hands on some kind of “nice-o-meter?”
After further consideration, I think that the OP is not who he/she claims to be. So you can disregard what I said in my post above.
By “nice,” do you mean a person with a good citizenship record?
Perhaps what the OP meant to write is that only Nice girls should be allowed to be in whatever activity the OP wants to participate in.
There are nice people and not nice people involved in every sport/activity.
My son is a cheerleader at his academy and I think he’s a nice person. Every person on his team is thin and fit but that is because at his academy, every student has to be within specific height and weight requirements. And they have to pass two fitness tests every year in order to remain at this academy.
Again with misperceptions…overweight people are capable of tumbling. In fact, capable of some fantastic tumbling.
Who should be a cheerleader? Whomever can execute the skills. Tumbling, stunting, jumps, dance, cheer motion technique. It takes a certain confidence and self assuredness to stand up in front of your peers and perform, even act, when the team is losing. It not just enough to be “nice”, whatever that means. Cheerleading is not was it was a decade ago and certainly not what is was in the 1950s. It is not just about standing on the sidelines cheering on the other sports. There are competitions for just cheer that require a certain set of skills and being nice/peppy is not enough to cut it and in fact, not having the skills (or at least the willingness and ability to learn the skills), is down right dangerous. Talent and ability are required to be competitive.
“Very true,” said Henry, “and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement – people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.” Ch 14
The OP just started an equally absurd thread in the parent cafe about ballerinas. Somebody is obviously VERY bored.
On the other hand, in oh, so wholesome Utah a few cheerleaders were less than stellar role models. http://nypost.com/2017/10/24/school-takes-action-against-cheerleaders-chanting-n-word-in-video/
@labegg Thank you for your post. I also have a high school cheerleader who is #1 in her class of 600+ students. She has been a dancer since she was 3 and cheered for school since she was in 6th grade. She is in 10th grade and the captain of her JV squad. She puts in hours of practice with her team and outside puts in more hours at tumbling. She can do standing back tucks, and roundoff back handspring back tucks on a basketball floor, all of which takes a great deal of athleticism. Her school doesn’t go to “Nationals” in Florida, but competes for a state title just like any other high school sport (and they were state champs last year). Thank you to labegg for setting everyone straight!
Look at the OP’s other thread about ballerinas…something is not right.
So how is that helpful? Does it show us that those cheerleaders are representative of most squads? Is this kind of behavior limited to cheerleaders, or could it be found among other kids, whether they be student athletes, math club members, student council officers, debate kids, average joes, band kids, choir kids, etc.?
I think people will see what they want to see.The OP seems determined to find the activities that attracts the “mean girls” though I have no idea why.
Dumbly unfunny topic, pointless, and my D is about as far away from cheerleader as you can get.
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